PIBOOK: COLLABORATIVE LEARNING TOOL AT A MUSEUM

摘要

Collaborative learning at museum exhibition is critical for elementary school pupil to interactively and attractively study new materials. This paper proposes Pi-book: a novel learning tool for the purpose. Pi-book is characterized by that (1) Pi-book is equipped with three kinds of portable devices: PDAs (Personal Data Assistances), CeBITs (Compact Battery-less Information Terminals), and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Tags as its user interface; (2) the display animation images at the PDA interactively change in a given situation; and 3) and Pi-book guides the users with phonetic information. We have experienced pibook system at science museum